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...President Leonid Brezhnev greeted Jaruzelski's appointment with a cordial telegram urging him to use his "great prestige" to rally the Polish party against "counterrevolution." There was no indication that the Kremlin had imposed Jaruzelski on the Poles; indeed, it probably would have preferred Politburo Hard-Liner Stefan Olszowski. But the Soviets apparently found the general an acceptable replacement for Kania, in whom they had lost all confidence...
Politburo Hard-Liner Stefan Olszowski eloquently summed up the nation's sense of impending disaster in a televised address. "Social tensions have been intensifying recently like an avalanche," he said. "People, tired and confused, are asking ever more dramatic questions: How will it all end? Will there be civil war in Poland...
While the possibility still remained that the Soviets might use military force to bring the Poles to heel, Olszowski suggested another tactic that Moscow might very well employ: drastically reducing aid and trade, which would leave Poland's crippled economy completely paralyzed. "The Soviet Union can cope without imports from Poland, but Poland cannot do without Soviet supplies," Olszowski declared...
Most of the incoming Politburo members appear to share Kania's centrist position. Two important exceptions: Interior Minister Miroslaw Milewski and Construction Worker Albin Siwak, both conservatives. They are expected to ally with the old Politburo's one surviving hardliner, Stefan Olszowski, to resist further political reforms...
What most alarmed the Soviets, perhaps, were rumors that Olszowski and Grabski might be purged at the Central Committee plenum. If such a move was in the works, Suslov may have been out to save the two men from an ignominious sacking. Suslov may also have urged a postponement of the Polish Party Congress, now scheduled for July, and inveighed against plans to elect delegates to it by a democratic secret ballot...